If you happen to have an old Android phone lying around in a drawer or closet, the good news is that it doesn’t have to live there in perpetuity. There are countless ways to repurpose an old smartphone, all of which can breathe new life into that long-forgotten mobile pal…

Prediction platform Polymarket has been on a partnership spree — a trend that continued this week, with a new deal involving Major League Baseball. MLB announced Thursday that Polymarket would be its official prediction market partner, a designation that will allow the site to gain exclusive access to official league…

Bots are taking over the web, according to Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince. In an interview at the SXSW conference in Austin this week, he said that with the speed at which artificial intelligence is growing, AI bot traffic will exceed the amount of human traffic that’s online by 2027. Prince…

There are a few advantages to going with a streaming box instead of a streaming stick. Usually, it comes down to better hardware, more features, and one key thing that streaming sticks often don’t have: ports. And by ports, I mean things like a USB port for connecting a hard…

Meta on Thursday announced that it’s starting to roll out more advanced AI systems to handle content enforcement as it plans to cut back on third-party vendors. Tasks related to content enforcement include catching and removing content about terrorism, child exploitation, drugs, fraud, and scams. The company says it will…

After settling its lengthy antitrust battle over the Android app ecosystem earlier this month, Google said Thursday it will make it easier to install Android apps from outside the Play Store. The company shared new details about an “advanced flow” setting that will allow Android device owners to turn off…

According to an Instagram post from Meta’s CTO Andrew Bosworth, Meta is not shutting down VR support for Horizon Worlds after all, which should come as a huge relief to, like, five people. “We have decided, just today in fact, that we will keep Horizon Worlds working in VR,” Bosworth…

Pre-Series A founders, this is your reminder! Nominations for Startup Battlefield 200 are still open, and the arena is already filling up. If you’ve been planning to apply, now’s the time to move. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, hand-selected startups won’t just pitch. They’ll step onto the stage and go head-to-head in front of world-class VCs and the full TechCrunch audience. This…

The Pixel 10a only launched earlier this month for $500, but it’s already facing tough competition. And no, it’s not from the iPhone 17e, but from its own flagship sibling, the Pixel 10, thanks to this amazing ongoing deal. Right now on Amazon, you can score a Google Pixel 10…

For more than a decade, Alphabet’s X moonshot factory has been quietly trying to fix one of the world’s most stubborn industries. It failed twice, but this time the industry itself is along for the ride. On Thursday, X said that Anori, its platform for streamlining the notoriously tangled process…